Lalitesh Katragadda has an audacious goal: to ensure that every home in the country gets high speed broadband access for around Rs 100 per month. For this, Andhra Pradesh is the laboratory - it promises a minimum speed of 10 mbps.
Katragadda is working for the government to connect a billion Indians. While the fibre optic cable to the user's doorstep, both in urban and rural areas, will offer bandwidth, entrepreneurs can build add-on services, such as educational content, for consumers to make the project viable. It's a task of humungous scale for which Katragadda shuttles ...